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Originally Posted by Matthew171
Thankyou all very much for the responses..
Perhaps my query was a little unclear.
I was trying to get a drift of the fuel and visa costs only..and possibly shipment back to UK. I gather that baksheesh and crazy fuel costs can add up!!
Not too sure what an 800% carnet is? Some sort of deposit reimbursed when you dont sell the bike in Egypt ?(I used to live in Dahab as a divemaster but only had my trusty pushy).
I lived in India for 4 years so am pretty used to finding a cheap way!! Am also T total and veggie which helps costs..
Thanks for the SEAsia tip but I used to live in Chiang Rai (Thailand) teaching Burmese refugee kids and I ran a little cbr400 all over the Area (great twisty roads up north)..and later cycled through Laos/Viet/Cam/Malaysia and right down to Singapore (took 2 years to do it!! the knees limited me to 100ks a day cause of previous motox racing).
Funnily enough I left San Sebastian this morning (just arrived in Tours)and had a couple of South Africans (Joburg) on the bus. They reckon a bike and papers will be buyable without a local address but crossing borders could be an issue? Or necessitate bribes.
Thanks to all for what is a great web site..couldnt contain myself!! just handed in my notice!!
Matthew
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hay if you go the west coast the carnet de passage is a lot less than the 800 percent
i will be taking a bedford mk with passengers in january via the west down to capetown (or as far as we can make it) visas are the hardest part....looking like 500 quid or more...and half of them they dont even want to issue, but as you are on a bike you could drive via DRC without the angola visa (which is a pain to get) we will be going via DRC in the bedford....but we have 15 people to push
you can actualy sell the bike in south africa if you find somone who will buy it with a carnet or will take it to zim on a TIP ,thats what we are doing,,,there is one forum called something like 4x4cafe that helps people with plated europen cars and bikes in southen africa sell to people who will drive them back to europe
we set of in January...maybe we will meet on the road... . Home - Vikings Across Africa
or you can join us if you dont want to do the driving
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